Legal aid groups, long forbidden from taking on certain types of work, could see a change under next year’s federal budget. President Barack Obama last month called for Congress to do away with three restrictions enacted on legal aid groups ...

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President Barack Obama named Louis B. Susman, a former longtime St. Louis attorney, to be his ambassador to Britain, the White House said. Susman was most recently a vice chairman of Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking. According to his biography, ...

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney accomplished something last week that Republicans have seldom been able to do: directly challenge President Barack Obama in real time on a major policy issue. In a nationally televised speech delivered just minutes after Obama ...

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President Barack Obama’s first U.S. Supreme Court appointment probably will be drawn from a group of women who have achieved prominence in the law or politics, ensuring more diversity and possibly more real-world experience for the high court. The replacement ...

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A House panel approved a $94.2 billion war funding bill that rejects elements of President Barack Obama’s spending request, including money to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee Thursday on ...

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Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill's name is popping up on blogs as a possible replacement for Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. McCaskill played a prominent role in President Obama's campaign (here, she is seen during a campaign stop in Springfield). She is listed as a personal favorite for the spot by U.S. News and World Report columnist and former George H.W. Bush speechwriter Mary Kate Cary.

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President Barack Obama sought to assure a top Republican senator he won’t nominate a “radical or extremist” to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, the lawmaker said. While Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah said after speaking ...

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President Barack Obama said he will replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter with a jurist who exhibits an “independent mind” and that he wants to have his nominee confirmed by the time the court’s next term begins. Obama interrupted the ...

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The Obama administration called for easing a disparity that results in longer prison terms for crack cocaine offenses than for powder cocaine, a difference the U.S. says disproportionately affects blacks. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lanny Breuer, in Senate testimony Wednesday, ...

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President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office holding a town hall meeting Wednesday morning in the Fox High School gymnasium in Arnold. After addressing the packed room, Obama took questions on subjects ranging from jobs to education to health care to the environment. Click here to view a slideshow of photographer Karen Elshout's photos from Obama's visit. To order photos, click here and select the “Barack Obama visits Arnold” album.

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